TRL End of Summer Countdown 2000

The show wasn't called "Total request live" yet but they did one of these the last weekend of august '98 for sure. The only videos I remember are "Flagpole Sitta" and maybe Usher "My Way."

Also i went with deftones for this

god i remember catching most of these during literal trl

i could vote for deftones but will prob vote for one of the korn singles here

but if i hadn’t seen “change” on trl would i have bought white pony????

yeah this was peak TRL, just missing forgot about dre and tom green’s bum bum song

my favs then we’re big pimpin, next episode, country grammar, and party up, and not much has changed.

Thong Song, all the way.

you can roll with rock or you can radio edit

Can't read this list without waves of school-age misery crashing in on me. Though "Doesn't Really Matter" is pretty much awesome enough to cancel that out.

"Say My Name" for sure. Lots of dross here.

God this whole era of pop music was so bad.

oops, I... that thong thong thong thong thong

Voted for "Change" since I actively enjoy it, has some nice atmosphere and intensity and is p distinctive imo. The Eminem song is OK, I guess, and I remember liking Destiny's Child OK at the time. Otherwise, not my thing, for the most part.

voted for nelly

voted nelly but i do love that bbmak song lol

oh yeah "back here" slaps

I thought Dream’s “He Loves U Not” would be here, but apparently it was a fall 2000 jam

I do look back on this era with fondness but...

13. Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
12. Jessica Simpson - I Think I'm In Love With You
11. Kid Rock - American Bad Ass

God this whole era of pop music was so bad.

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counterpoint: take me back

Country Grammar, Adam’s Song, Change, Party Up, Big Pimpin’ in that order.

Everything else:
Meh

Btw I really like the p4k review of country grammar. Doesn’t really talk much about the album itself but about the factors and history behind its success: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nelly-country-grammar/

i may still be fresh off poll high from janet, but this is easily "doesn't really matter"

just had a vivid flashback of a method man/limp bizkit collab with a TRL-charting video in which they fought with samurai swords, mercifully can’t remember how it sounds

n 2 gether now. a classic. overshadowed by the success of break stuff

UP IN HERE

Xp not nearly as bad as I feared lol, no nu-metal, just a boom-bap track with a decent primo beat and meth verse.

Jigga Man, Pimp C, and B-U-N B

most of these songs I never want to hear again

this is an era of pop that i cherish

38. Lil' Kim - No Matter What They Say

this may have been the first lil kim song i heard. i remember liking her more than i did the song, tho the amusing line "if i was you i'd hate me too" stuck around in my head for years. my cousin had her album (fairly edgy for our age) so i got to hear more soon enough, including what i now recognize as an all-time classic "how many licks"

36. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

i think the dreamcast-aesthetic video actually tricked me into liking the song

20. Destiny's Child - Say My Name

a little perplexed by this song's presence on this countdown -- it started breaking at r&b stations in like december/january, and while it took time to cross over to pop stations, it didn't take that long! i can't imagine it would have been late to gain traction on mtv given that "bills bills bills" had been quite a big video there, so maybe it just stuck around on the countdown forever? i will have to look into this because apparently i am incapable of leaving trivial curiosities like this alone

11. Kid Rock - American Bad Ass

i recall my brother purchasing this cd from a walmart when we were on vacation

7. BBMak - Back Here

the best boyband song on this list actually! i remember seeing it a ton on vh1 as well

among the britney/christina-not-yet-xtina/etc. set on this list, my favorite was and is jessica simpson's "i think i'm in love with you", tho mandy moore's voice sounds lovely on "i wanna be with you". (i understand why the "lucky" video was so big, but it's a lesser britney single imo.) mandy hosted a show on mtv that summer! and so did sisqo!

what fascinates me about this era is that quite a few of these songs were making essentially no noise on (american) radio yet still felt like fairly significant phenoms just from the exposure they got from this channel alone. like, not just that kid rock song but also the hanson one. (also, i had totally forgotten that p.o.d. got big on mtv well before "alive" and "youth of the nation")

some of these videos seemed like events -- i remember "music" being heavily hyped for example, and many premiered on mtv's making the video program and would immediately find themselves on the following trl episode

after all that i'm still not sure what to vote for. perhaps nelly, but i'll sit on it a little longer

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are we voting for song or video?

I guess the answer to both is "Big Pimpin"

'Change', duh.

maybe it just stuck around on the countdown forever?

i believe so

"Back Here" is dope. Probably my 2nd favorite here after "Change."

https://i.imgur.com/JNogpz6.jpg

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The correct song won, but I'm gonna assume many of the songs that got votes were because you a lot of you were 12-15 years old at the time.

It’s true, I voted “Oops!... I Did It Again”. It’s also true that if I would have had any children they might have been 12-15 years old then.

I already regret my cranky old man post from nineteen minutes ago. My apologies.

shoutout to the papa roach voter

aww, you shouldn’t have

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